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CAP - To cap the betting is to make the last permitted raise in a round.
STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
STAND OFF - To call a raise. "Opener raises, I stand off".
POT - The total amount of money bet so far in a hand.
SPLIT [OPENERS] - In draw poker, to discard one or more openers, usually to draw to a straight or flush. Normally requires the opener to declare the act and retain the discards so that the act of opening can later be validated.
TRIPS - Three of a kind. In Hold'em the term SET is used when two of the three cards are hole cards.

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